really, really interesting

[winterbadger]

http://www.livejournal.com/users/wayfairer/456769.html

It's a bit long, but it's worth the read.

What it doesn't explain to me maybe the many, many pages of discussion do, but I have to do *some* work), is... OK, if that's the way people think and they see Bush as a Christian man fighting the forces of evil, then I can see why they would vote for him. But what I still don't get is *why* they would see Bush as a good Christian man. Surely not just because he says so. And if it were just based on his actiosn, that would be entirely circular: we support him because he's X, eveen if he does what might seem like bad things, but we think he's X because he does good things... Is it because of who endorses him? I'm still missing something.

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[robbysmom.livejournal.com]

I agree that the "religious right" that seeks (and clearly is seeking) political power is a great danger to the unity of the nation and, frankly, to the concept of "a church under God" itself. Historicaly, small communities of faith (focused on livign out their faith) have not been a particlaur problem for and with others; but powerful communtites and religious states or non-state actors who seek doctinaire religious unity within states (a number of popes, Holy Roman Emperors, AQ-- just to name a few off the top of my head. . .) clearly are and have been.